The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the 2019 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) into the Federal Government-run unity schools across Nigeria.
The registrar of the council, Abubakar Gana, presented the results to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Tuesday in Abuja.
The common entrance examination took place on April 27.
According to the registrar,77,832 candidates registered for the examination but only 73,347 sat for the examination.
“We had 18 visually-impaired students who sat for the examination,” he said.
When asked for the data on the performance of candidates, the registrar said it is the ministry that will provide the statistics.
The minister, Mr Adamu, said the admission exercise will commence on May 14 with the first batch of admissions coming from the first week of June.
He said supplementary admissions will take place between July 13 and 20.
Mr Adamu said all the unity schools will be opened for resumption by the second week of September.
